May 2006 - Posts

Format column text in GridView

I came across an interesting one today. In order to get the DateFormatString property to work on a GridView you must have the HtmlEncode property set to false. If you don't have the HtmlEncode property set the string will simply not format. Here's an Read More

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Microsoft Guidelines for Test-Driven Development (updated)

I'm not going to go into the history on this but Microsoft has finally put out some quality guidelines for TDD. And since the new article comes from James Newkirk we can all feel a little better. Luckily he kept it in true TDD fashion, short, simple, Read More

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Good article on creating Site Definitions for SharePoint Portal

If you've ever worked with custom Site Definitions in SharePoint you can agree it's not a simple task. Ameet Phandis has written a great article detailing the steps required to write your own custom site definition for SharePoint. Good stuff! Now Read More

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